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"It has pleased God to cast my lot among these
people, and I ought not to quit them. It would be adding the
appearance of treachery to what will already seem bad enough, with one
of his opinions. He has been kind to me, an orphan, after his rough
customs, and I cannot steal from him at such a moment."
"She is just as much a relation of skirting Ishmael as I am a bishop!"
said Paul, with a loud hem, as if his throat wanted clearing. "If the
old fellow has done the honest thing by her, in giving her a morsel of
venison now and then, or a spoon around his homminy dish, hasn't she
pay'd him in teaching the young devils to read their Bible, or in
helping old Esther to put her finery in shape and fashion. Tell me
that a drone has a sting, and I'll believe you as easily as I will
that this young woman is a debtor to any of the tribe of Bush!"
"It is but little matter who owes me, or where I am in debt. There are
none to care for a girl who is fatherless and motherless, and whose
nearest kin are the offcasts of all honest people.


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